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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTMr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSThey were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGHe walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONHe paused, then mixed and drank another whiskey-and-soda, lit a cigarette, and resumed.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONWhen the orange-and-red banner was actually replaced by the Stars and Stripes, many in the crowd shed tears.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThe exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKWe had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThe steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDINGGEORGE LAING MILLERWORDS RELATED TO HEM AND HAW
- balking
- cavilling
- challenging
- combating
- complaining
- deprecating
- disapproving
- disputing
- doubting
- fighting
- hem and haw
- hesitating
- objecting
- opposing
- pausing
- protesting
- pussyfooting
- refusing
- remonstrating
- resisting
- scrupling
- shying
- sticking
- stickling
- straining
- taking exception
- vacillating
- waiting and seeing
- wavering
- baffle
- be beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- bilk
- circumvent
- confound
- cop out
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- duck
- eschew
- evade
- flee
- fly
- foil
- frustrate
- get around
- get away from
- give the runaround
- give the slip
- give wide berth to
- hem and haw
- not touch
- outrun
- outwit
- pass the buck
- pass up
- puzzle
- run around
- shirk
- shuck
- shun
- shy
- stall
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- stonewall
- stump
- thwart
- baffled
- beat around the bush
- bilked
- circumvented
- confounded
- copped out
- ditched
- dodged
- doubled
- ducked
- eschewed
- evaded
- fled
- flew
- foiled
- frustrated
- gave the runaround
- gave the slip
- gave wide berth to
- got around
- got away from
- hem and haw
- not touched
- outran
- outwitted
- passed the buck
- passed up
- puzzled
- ran around
- shied
- shirked
- shucked
- shunned
- stalled
- stayed shy of
- steered clear of
- stonewalled
- stumped
- thwarted
- was beyond someone
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